The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is 70 per cent built, and 15 January 2020 has been set as a deadline to reach an agreement over outstanding differences. Yet the first of four meetings, which the US and the World Bank are attending as (...)
The five permanent members of the Security Council plus Egypt, the UAE, Italy, Turkey, Algeria and Tunisia met in Berlin Wednesday in the framework of preparations for the international conference on Libya that UN Special Envoy Ghassan Salamé called (...)
Oil was steady on Wednesday, after falling the past two days, as a surge in U.S. stockpiles reinforced concerns about lackluster global economic growth amid the trade war between the United States and China, the world's two biggest oil (...)
Dubai port operator DP World has agreed with Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) on the allocation of an industrial land plot of land in the canal area
In a press conference celebrating the company's ten years of operations in Egypt, DP (...)
Oil fell for the second straight day on Tuesday amid market jitters over limited progress between China and the United States on rolling back trade tariffs, while rising U.S. inventories also jangled nerves.
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Average occupancy rates in Egypt's Red Sea hotels recorded 75 percent in 2019, a senior official in the Tourism Ministry said on Monday, as the country moves to boost the sector vital for foreign currency revenues.
President Abdel Fattah al-Assi, (...)
Democrats responded skeptically on Monday to President Donald Trump's declaration that he might be willing to testify in his impeachment inquiry and also said they were examining the truthfulness of his testimony in the Russia 2016 election (...)
Turkey's defence ministry said on Tuesday Kurdish YPG militia had killed three people and wounded eight in a missile attack on a school in the Tel Abyad region of northern Syria which they were meant to have withdrawn from under a ceasefire (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday urged more investment in African countries to improve their living standards and help prevent migrants from coming to Europe as part of the Compact with Africa initiated through the G20.
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Russia said on Tuesday it was bewildered by a Turkish pledge to conduct a new military operation in northern Syria if the area was not cleared of people Ankara calls terrorists, warning that any such move would damage efforts to stabilise the (...)
The US announced it would withdraw its troops in northern Syria from border areas with Turkey on 7 October, with US President Donald Trump tweeting the decision several times and triggering intense debate in US decision-making circles about the (...)
Oil was little changed on Monday following steady gains in the previous week with investors awaiting fresh clues over prospects for a trade deal between the United States and China, shrugging off concerns over steadily rising oil supplies.
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The House impeachment hearings are entering a crucial second week as Democrats are set to hear from eight additional witnesses about President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine. Three State Department officials have already testified about their (...)
U.S. State Department officials were informed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was feeling pressure from the Trump administration to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden even before the July phone call that has led to impeachment (...)
The Egyptian Railway Authority (ERA) has signed with U.S. PRL (Progress Rail Automotives) some contracts worth $466.3 million after a meeting with President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi that took place last week, according to Egypt Today on Saturday.
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The phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart at the center of Congress' impeachment investigation was "inappropriate," an aide to Vice President Mike Pence told lawmakers, according to a transcript released on (...)
Eighteeen nations will gather in Madrid's La Caja Magica on Monday as the men's tennis season culminates with a revamped Davis Cup format dreamt up by a man who earns his living playing soccer for Barcelona.
The week-long soccer World Cup-style (...)
President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress, in an extraordinary moment that Democrats said amounted to witness intimidation.
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Turkey bought S-400 missile defense systems from Russia to use them, not put them aside, the head of the Turkish Defense Industry Directorate said on Saturday, days after talks between President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The United States on Friday sent a letter to Egypt's government warning of possible sanctions over Cairo's decision to move forward with plans to buy Russian jets, an official familiar with the decision told Bloomberg.
According to the person, the (...)
A second day of televised impeachment hearings opened on Friday in the US House of Representatives with the spotlight on Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine branded "bad news" by President Donald Trump before he fired her.
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Oil rose on Thursday after industry data showed a surprise drop in U.S. crude inventories while comments from an OPEC official about lower-than-expected U.S. shale production growth in 2020 also provided some support for oil.
However, prices were (...)
Former world number one Andy Murray is in line to play Grigor Dimitrov in the opening round of the inaugural ATP Cup, with Bulgaria qualifying among the final six teams in the nation-based tournament.
Briton Murray, on the comeback trail after hip (...)
With historic impeachment hearings underway, Democrats and Republicans are hardening their arguments over the actions of President Donald Trump as they set out to win over a deeply polarized American public.
Democrats say Wednesday's extraordinary (...)
Syrian government forces started deploying Thursday in areas close to the Turkish border in the country's northeast as part of an agreement reached between Russia and Turkey, state media reported.
News agency SANA said troops were deploying between (...)
